Speaker 1: Hey guys, this is Renee all Day joining me now
Speaker 1: in the hot seat. Jordan Battle, Hi, how you doing good?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm great good.
Speaker 1: We were just talking off camera before you sat down
Speaker 1: about entrance themes you would go with some Drake. Do
Speaker 1: you have like a it was there like a top
Speaker 1: five songs that you think kind of sum you up?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You want so? You want five songs that you.
Speaker 1: Think that just like that's me? Yeah, feel it on
Speaker 1: many different days.
Speaker 2: Let me startry Kodak, probably because I'm from Florida.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, scrilla, Okay.
Speaker 2: Then we could go I'll go R and B.
Speaker 1: Then I'll go get some emotion involved.
Speaker 2: I gotta get some feelings my future, maybe like some solo.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I didn't go.
Speaker 2: Gotta go Drake really really, any Drake song for me?
Speaker 2: Drake's He's a Goat.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a Toronto gal. So I love me
Speaker 1: some Drake.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Recently he was just talking about it, Virginia Beach.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful song, beautiful melody.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you answered that. I feel like most people
Speaker 1: would maybe draw a blank on that, but you just
Speaker 1: knocked out five. You're ready for it. Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: let's talk about your media training, because it seems like
Speaker 1: you're very smooth to be able to sit down here
Speaker 1: and do some interviews and step in front of the camera.
Speaker 1: Have you done a lot of media trains? You do
Speaker 1: that at Alabama?
Speaker 2: Yeah? They As a freshman in Alabama, you couldn't even
Speaker 2: get in front of the camera because you got to
Speaker 2: do media training.
Speaker 1: So what do they make you do for that? What
Speaker 1: does that look like?
Speaker 2: It's like they have like former players come in and
Speaker 2: they have kind of like run a class for us
Speaker 2: and they give us like little tips on if you
Speaker 2: if you get this, if you get this question, how
Speaker 2: to answer it, or if you get this question you
Speaker 2: don't know how to answer it, just answer it and
Speaker 2: the way you want to, which is kind of what
Speaker 2: coach Saban does. He gets a question how he wants.
Speaker 1: To or you like answer the question that you want
Speaker 1: to answer.
Speaker 2: Yes, I hear you.
Speaker 1: However, it's kind of like Duck and Dodge. Ye smart
Speaker 1: smart smart. Okay, So you are stepping into a huge
Speaker 1: role right now this season. How does it feel to
Speaker 1: be where you are right now with the Bengals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels great. The guy has been welcoming me
Speaker 2: in every day. It's been getting more and more comfortable
Speaker 2: as we play more and more together. We're just trying
Speaker 2: to get the communication around the back back in so
Speaker 2: that we are on the same page and we could
Speaker 2: play winning football and lately a defense, I feel like
Speaker 2: we've been doing a pretty good job, you know, just
Speaker 2: trying to keep working on the things we can work on,
Speaker 2: like tackling communication, like I said, fitting fitting the right gaps,
Speaker 2: and I feel like it's always being for improvement and progression.
Speaker 2: And I feel like we're doing a good.
Speaker 1: Job and you've just been kind of crushing it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at you have the most snaps in the
Speaker 1: last game. How does it feel to be just like
Speaker 1: locked in the way that you are this early on
Speaker 1: in your careerly NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of kind of thanked BEMA for that
Speaker 2: because I had to be locked in my freshman year yep,
Speaker 2: freshman year going into BEMA, I got a chance to
Speaker 2: play early after a Duke game. I started the next game.
Speaker 2: Duke was the first game. I called the interception in
Speaker 2: that game, but I came in like late in the game,
Speaker 2: so it wasn't It was really like garbage minutes, and
Speaker 2: then the following game I had to start, which was
Speaker 2: like kind of like nerve wrecking because I was a
Speaker 2: freshman and here I am at the best college starting
Speaker 2: right away, and it was kind of nerve wrecking. But
Speaker 2: from there it was I had to I knew I
Speaker 2: had to go into a leader early, and it's kind
Speaker 2: of helped me here because now I have to go
Speaker 2: into a leader early in my rookie year and becoming
Speaker 2: the starter. The guy's going to allow me and I
Speaker 2: like that. I like the pressure being on me, and
Speaker 2: it's been fun.
Speaker 1: What do you do with those nerves? How do you
Speaker 1: get yourself ready when you're feeling a little bit shake
Speaker 1: and walking into a situation. What do you do?
Speaker 2: I feel like I just smile it out. I'm a guy.
Speaker 2: You always see me walking through the facility, probably talking
Speaker 2: to somebody, just just smiling or trying to make somebody
Speaker 2: else smile. That's the type of guy I am. Maybe
Speaker 2: crack a joke, maybe trying to brighten somebody's day. However
Speaker 2: I can laughter, yeah, laft laughter, or just just my smile.
Speaker 2: I feel like I have a great smile.
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Speaker 1: Talk to me about draft day because you had a
Speaker 1: hell of a party going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. Draft Day was big for me, big
Speaker 2: for me and my family and my friends. I appreciate
Speaker 2: everybody for coming out that that came. It was fun.
Speaker 2: It was a little nerve wrecking, you know, sitting there
Speaker 2: waiting to hear your name called, waiting for that phone,
Speaker 2: getting that that ring, because obviously you have family friends
Speaker 2: calling you that day too, so.
Speaker 1: You don't know who's got to commute everything. You guys,
Speaker 1: dont call me right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you gotta answer every call because you don't
Speaker 2: know what call, what call it can be. But it
Speaker 2: was fun. I actually share my experience before getting drafted,
Speaker 2: like whenever somebody asked me about it, because I was
Speaker 2: sitting at the table just playing Uno with my friends
Speaker 2: with the draft on right behind, right behind us, and
Speaker 2: I got the call, and I remember everybody's faces, like
Speaker 2: when I threw the car down, I started talking on
Speaker 2: the phone. Everybody pick up their phone, just taking the
Speaker 2: video of me. Yeah, the emotions in the room was
Speaker 2: just it was it was a fun moment.
Speaker 1: Have you brought Uno into the locker room because you
Speaker 1: guys play a lot of different games in the locker rooms.
Speaker 1: Uno in the.
Speaker 2: Mix I've never seen in the mix.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe it's time for you to bring it in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I need to bring the big one though,
Speaker 2: to like a big call.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I think that it might not be a
Speaker 1: bad idea at all. Okay, So you talk about coming
Speaker 1: from Alabama here into the Cincinnati Bengals winning franchises. How
Speaker 1: much has changed from you from Alabama to what you're
Speaker 1: experiencing here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot, just responsibility wise, me being a grown
Speaker 2: man now. I mean I feel like I felt like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I felt like I was a grown man in college,
Speaker 2: but I'm really a grown man now. Yeah. Yeah, living
Speaker 2: on your own.
Speaker 1: Just oh, is this your first time living on your own?
Speaker 2: No? Yeah, but that's a lot.
Speaker 1: It is a lot to like, come in now you
Speaker 1: have all these responsibilities, You've got different paychecks coming in,
Speaker 1: Like it's really prioritizing all those things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta. I've been working on my credit score lately.
Speaker 2: I've never I've never looked at my credit score until
Speaker 2: until I got to the NFL. I'm like, okay, I
Speaker 2: got to really focus on this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do not want that thing to dip, because
Speaker 1: no matter how much money you have in your bank account,
Speaker 1: you got that bad credit score and not bad news. Yeah, certainly.
Speaker 2: So just the main thing has been like responsibility. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been going well.
Speaker 1: So you went you went back and got your degree.
Speaker 2: Is this true? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did me about that.
Speaker 2: It was all right, so sorry, degree in human human
Speaker 2: environmental Science. Yeah, I was. So I was going to
Speaker 2: come out my junior year, but I had to get
Speaker 2: surgery on my ankle, and I wanted to do the
Speaker 2: combine and everything. Yeah, so, and I wanted to graduate
Speaker 2: because my mom wanted me to graduate. Shears big on that.
Speaker 2: So I was like, I can I can graduate next? Well,
Speaker 2: graduate early earlier than usual because my graduation date would
Speaker 2: have been May, but I graduated in December, so I
Speaker 2: graduated a little early. So it was like more like
Speaker 2: three and a half more like three and a half years.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I decided to come back, had an ankle issue,
Speaker 2: came back played my senior year. Obviously, was host to
Speaker 2: win the national championship, but that didn't happen. But it
Speaker 2: was a fun year. I got my degree. It was tough,
Speaker 2: but it took extra work.
Speaker 1: What would you do with the degree? And what is it?
Speaker 1: Human environmental science science.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's kind of broad. You can do a lot.
Speaker 2: You can do like financial planning, you can do yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: You could do like human relations, you could help people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's broad.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I know absolutely. Hey, I don't have a degree,
Speaker 1: so hats off to you. Get after it. Be you?
Speaker 1: What does that mean to you?
Speaker 2: Be me? Is just I feel like it kind of
Speaker 2: goes along the lines of me talking about my smile. Uh,
Speaker 2: just coming in every day, you know, not letting the
Speaker 2: circumstance outside of the facility dictate how much. Try how'ma
Speaker 2: come in and be today? Just try to be me,
Speaker 2: you know, come come out on the field. Somebody needs help.
Speaker 2: I'm the guy you can ask, even if I am
Speaker 2: a rookie. Try to cheat myself like I'm a vet
Speaker 2: because next year you're already a VET in your second year.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of crazy. How how life, How life goes, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it comes at you very fast. And people have been
Speaker 2: telling me Mike. I talked to Mike a lot. Mike
Speaker 2: t twelve year vet in the end of the league.
Speaker 2: I talked to him a lot, and he's he's been
Speaker 2: on me, telling me not a Rocky anymore. Even though
Speaker 2: I still got these rookie duties on me. You go
Speaker 2: to wake games, I gotta bring bunt cakes. I gotta
Speaker 2: do all. Yeah, I gotta bring the bunt cakes. Wing stop. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So even though I'm not, I'm not looking at as
Speaker 2: a rookie anymore, I still got those ricky duties to do.
Speaker 1: Is there a more popular bunt cake for me? Sprinkles,
Speaker 1: that's a big one, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: The confetti, Yeah, the confetti is definitely a big hit.
Speaker 2: But my favorite is shrawberries and cream.
Speaker 1: Okay, I only just recently had it for the first time.
Speaker 1: I did a I like the carrot cake and then
Speaker 1: a red velvet.
Speaker 2: Yeah. My first time was Avenue when I got.
Speaker 1: It's a thing of beauty. Certainly they love it. What
Speaker 1: do you do when you are having a rough day?
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you are positive, You're very smiley. That
Speaker 1: is your thing. But we all have dates and we're
Speaker 1: kind of down on the dump, so you got to
Speaker 1: pick yourself up a little bit. What do you do
Speaker 1: in those moments?
Speaker 2: Uh? Usually it's like play the game with my friends
Speaker 2: like from back home, or even you can even play
Speaker 2: the game with teammates. That's that's kind of very soothing
Speaker 2: because if you're on the mic, you guys talk about
Speaker 2: life while you're playing the game. You know, you got
Speaker 2: things you talk about in the party where people just
Speaker 2: go on tell the story and you guys are all laughing.
Speaker 2: It's taking you back to the old days when getting together.
Speaker 2: So yeah, just kind of talking to friends and family
Speaker 2: is a big thing for me.
Speaker 1: Who on the team is is your guide that you
Speaker 1: can kind of like shoot the breeze with the most
Speaker 1: moments like.
Speaker 2: That, probably like h D j Ivy, Yeah, j Ivy
Speaker 2: from h he's from Florida as well. He's from Miami
Speaker 2: from for a Lot of Death. So we're not too
Speaker 2: far not too far apart. You're actually training together two
Speaker 2: of the same trainer on field trainer goldfeet. Yeh.
Speaker 1: You credit your family a lot for this positivity and
Speaker 1: they kind of helped you prepare for the mental side
Speaker 1: of this game. How did they help you with all that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just from a kid growing up, my dad always
Speaker 2: either coaching me, my mom being there taking the stats
Speaker 2: of the game, coaching or coaching from the from the
Speaker 2: bench or from the crowd. I used to didn't. I
Speaker 2: didn't like that when she would be in the crowd
Speaker 2: and I'm on the court or I'm on the field
Speaker 2: and she's kind of like telling me what to do.
Speaker 2: It's like, Mom, I got it, you know, Like yeah,
Speaker 2: But but them being on me, harping on me. My
Speaker 2: dad working me early as a kid, making me stay
Speaker 2: extra hours, making me stay the extra whether it was
Speaker 2: because I was a big basketball guy when I was young.
Speaker 2: That probably was my favorite sport growing up, but just
Speaker 2: staying after him, having me do make ten free throws
Speaker 2: in a row before we leave. It was something I
Speaker 2: used to cry about. But then I realized he was
Speaker 2: only doing it for the for the betterment of me,
Speaker 2: and as we grew up, he helped me and my
Speaker 2: mom helped me. My brother was always very supportive as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he played football and went to college and played at
Speaker 2: Illinois State. Now he's in Kansas, living in Kansas, in
Speaker 2: the Bad City, Kansas City. Yeah, yeah, I still love him,
Speaker 2: but yeah, just just them having their support. Yeah, my
Speaker 2: entire life. Even my aunties, my cousins, they all very supportive.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just knowing that they're they're watching, always watching. They
Speaker 2: always have my back and they're they're going to support
Speaker 2: me no matter what. It kind of helped me throughout
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. I was just watching the Beckham documentary
Speaker 1: not long ago when he was trying about how his
Speaker 1: dad to keep him on the field, and he was like,
Speaker 1: you know, crying, the weather would be bad. He's out
Speaker 1: there playing soccer, he's crying, Like I think it maybe
Speaker 1: gave him a bit of a weird relationship with his dad.
Speaker 1: But to have the parent that does push you like that,
Speaker 1: even those times you said, like you're crying through it.
Speaker 1: You don't want to go do it, but sometimes that
Speaker 1: is the thing that you need to really like walk
Speaker 1: into being that next level athlete.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's crazy to think of like that, that
Speaker 1: level of tapping into those things. Okay, handshakes, You've got
Speaker 1: a handshake with lots of guys on the team. Is
Speaker 1: this true? This was my design? I know everything. I
Speaker 1: am an internet sleuth.
Speaker 2: Me I got I got a lot of handshakes.
Speaker 1: I like doing all the research and like listening to
Speaker 1: the other interviews and seeing what other kind of things
Speaker 1: you've been up to. What is the art of the handshake?
Speaker 1: How do you come up with the good handshake?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's kind of like off the It's
Speaker 2: kind of like off the doom, off the mines. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean usually usually it came some of ours came
Speaker 2: from my Rookie Talent Show?
Speaker 1: What did you do for yours?
Speaker 2: I dance but I got booed for it? But then
Speaker 2: they want to make a handshake with me doing the
Speaker 2: dance that I was doing that I got booed for.
Speaker 1: Why would they do you for the dance? Why was
Speaker 1: gitting on the dance?
Speaker 2: I'm no clue. And I have a handshake with Joe
Speaker 2: Joe Mixed and with Mike Hilton where I do the
Speaker 2: dance that I was doing in the Rookie Talent Show
Speaker 2: that I got booed for.
Speaker 1: Wow, It's is crazy because it.
Speaker 2: It feels like it feels like they like it.
Speaker 1: But it's like a love hate relationship. We develop a
Speaker 1: little handshake right like right off the dome?
Speaker 2: What would we right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's do you do it based off of the person?
Speaker 1: Do I have to give you a certain like energy
Speaker 1: or vibe for you to.
Speaker 2: It's kind of yeah, now, yeah for sure. But yeah
Speaker 2: we can make one.
Speaker 1: Okay, ready, Yeah, yeah, I'm ready. I mean you're leading
Speaker 1: the way, I'm following you.
Speaker 2: All right, it's gonna go mm hmm huh. Come on, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: huh double double huh huh double double.
Speaker 1: Because you want me to stop talking? No, okay, I
Speaker 1: can do that one. That's a good one, all right.
Speaker 1: I actually don't. I'm not a big handshake for something. Now,
Speaker 1: I got one. I got one going the family group chat?
Speaker 1: What do you call it? The battle gang?
Speaker 2: Battle gang?
Speaker 1: Battle gang? Am I freaking you out? That creeping you out?
Speaker 1: You're dead? You're dead? Who initiated the group chat? What
Speaker 1: is the photo? What goes on in the group chat?
Speaker 2: The battle gang? I don't I think we. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Probably my brother. My brother probably initiated, probably started it, uh,
Speaker 2: probably around probably my first year in college, first year
Speaker 2: in college, or even my senior year of high school.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think the profile picture is like a picture of
Speaker 2: all of us. Yeah, so when we were younger. I
Speaker 2: think it's somebody's uh, somebody's birthday we went to red Lobster.
Speaker 1: Hell, yeah, what's your red lobster order?
Speaker 2: First of all, I don't eat see food. What I know,
Speaker 2: it sounds crazy. I'm from Florida and don't eat se food.
Speaker 2: I mean I do eat calm okay, which you guys
Speaker 2: probably don't even know what counk is. Do you know
Speaker 2: what counk is?
Speaker 1: I feel like I've had that. What is that?
Speaker 2: It's like it's a shell.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I guess I've had that.
Speaker 2: But yes, it's very popular in the Caribbeans, like Bahamas, Jamaica.
Speaker 2: They like take the cunk down and they cook it
Speaker 2: like right in front of you. So yeah, I like
Speaker 2: I like cunk and calamari, but any other seafood I
Speaker 2: could like try it, but I can't have like a
Speaker 2: whole dish.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay. So while I was preparing for this interview,
Speaker 1: I was watching an interview that you did with Uninterrupted,
Speaker 1: and you said that not a lot of people make
Speaker 1: it out Sorry what was the lion? Let me see
Speaker 1: where it is. You don't make it out of spot
Speaker 1: that many people don't? What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2: So? I grew up in a lot of hill lotta
Speaker 2: hill Florida, like a small city, like full out of
Speaker 2: the area played football. There a lot of hill Lions.
Speaker 2: That was my little league football team. And I think
Speaker 2: maybe like two, maybe like five people like out of
Speaker 2: the whole time that that park started, I think like
Speaker 2: made it to like college, just in college, like for football.
Speaker 2: I know Salmon junior he played, we played UH at
Speaker 2: the same part and he's now in the league. But him,
Speaker 2: that was really that was really it him Willis Mcgahey,
Speaker 2: I know for sure, And yeah, just not a lot
Speaker 2: of people. You know, it's a it's kind of a rough,
Speaker 2: a rough area. I mean not rough rough, but it's
Speaker 2: a rough area. Guys. Guys don't tend to make it,
Speaker 2: you know, they get to high school and then their
Speaker 2: mind goes everywhere. Sure, but yeah it was. It was
Speaker 2: a rough spot. But just knowing that I prevailed, made
Speaker 2: it through, UH, which is what my parents come through.
Speaker 2: Come in, come in and play again, come in a
Speaker 2: part just them being able to stay on me. Uh,
Speaker 2: tell me get those good girls when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Uh, get that degree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me get my degree. My second second academic
Speaker 2: advisor when I'm in college. My mom, she used to
Speaker 2: be on me like I was like, come on, ma,
Speaker 2: I have have academic I have academic advisor.
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Speaker 1: have your own day in your hometown?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What what is it called? Battle day? What do we
Speaker 1: call it?
Speaker 2: Think it is Jordan battle to Day?
Speaker 1: Okay, it's like, yeah, what do you do? How do
Speaker 1: we celebrate you? What is Jordan battle Day? What day
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 2: I don't even know. I don't even know. I'm not
Speaker 2: I don't even know. Today I got to like I
Speaker 2: got the paper like the proclamation at home, but I
Speaker 2: don't even know the day by heart?
Speaker 1: Is right? That is bad? Okay, you definitely got you
Speaker 1: got to memorize that one today.
Speaker 2: I mean you only had like it just think I
Speaker 2: just got it like right, like right pre before the drive. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's only I've only had it. I haven't even
Speaker 2: had to day. I don't think I've been able to
Speaker 2: celebrate a day yet. I think it's time, like it
Speaker 2: has to come.
Speaker 1: It's not back around yet. Okay, So in February, Okay,
Speaker 1: how would we celebrate you. What would what would your
Speaker 1: like perfect day be of us celebrating Jordan Bottle mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: I would need like a a big like gaming something
Speaker 2: to do with gaming, okay, like like competing with people
Speaker 2: or something like a big competitive gaming day.
Speaker 1: Okay? What would be.
Speaker 2: Like? Food wise?
Speaker 1: Drink wise?
Speaker 2: Chicken? Okay, a lot of chicken?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: What type of drinks you're talking?
Speaker 1: Whatever you want, it's your day.
Speaker 2: You have a cocktailberry lemonade, some lemon drops, and some tequila.
Speaker 1: Perfect perfect U. Talk to me about your Combine interview
Speaker 1: because everyone was freaking out about how great your interview was,
Speaker 1: how quickly you were able to gel with the Bengals.
Speaker 1: What is your advice for anybody going into a job interview,
Speaker 1: trying to get a promotion, trying to land on that
Speaker 1: dream job. What advice do you have?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like we talked about. Just be
Speaker 2: you going to the going to the meeting, greet everybody,
Speaker 2: agreet everybody with a smile, Say yes, sir, say ma'am,
Speaker 2: because there a long way. Yeah, managers do go along
Speaker 2: with and your smile goes along way as well. You know,
Speaker 2: keep that smile on your face.
Speaker 1: Being not like creepy, because sometimes you can oversmile and calmed.
Speaker 2: A little bit. Yeah, it's just yeah, going there, going
Speaker 2: there be you trust what you know going in, going
Speaker 2: into it. You know you're a smart player, going there
Speaker 2: and show them that you're a smart player. You know
Speaker 2: that you're you're fast, you know that your physical be
Speaker 2: able to show it on the film because they will
Speaker 2: be they will be able to pull it up and
Speaker 2: they can see it and be truthful because that takes
Speaker 2: you a long way. And a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of people talked about like my character, that was something
Speaker 2: I worked on my whole life, just growing up. And
Speaker 2: my character I've been was was probably through the roof.
Speaker 2: I don't think, No, I don't think there's anybody in
Speaker 2: the building like who didn't like me or that's like.
Speaker 1: That's really rare to be able to say that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's because I like go out my way
Speaker 2: to like speak to people, like just to make sure
Speaker 2: they're good, just check up on them. That's just that's.
Speaker 1: Nick Saban sayings. I heard that you had already been
Speaker 1: talking about this a little bit. What are some like
Speaker 1: big Nick Saban says that stick out in your mind that.
Speaker 2: Probably already heard the big one everybody. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 2: let me see if I got another one. Okay, because
Speaker 2: he was he was very he was very like funny
Speaker 2: but corny. It was like he'll say a joke like
Speaker 2: that jokes. Yeah, he'll say a joke and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: he wants us to laugh, so let's laugh, guys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's like, uh, he'll use like old like southern
Speaker 2: southern jokes because he's from West Virginia, so he'll use
Speaker 2: like some some farm joke or uh cow joke or something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it was. It was funny, but you know.
Speaker 1: That's what he knows. That's his comfort zone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was funny, but like, come on, you gotta
Speaker 2: grow up with the generations, learn some new ones fair enough,
Speaker 2: because he's he's alway getting his dB stands like, coach,
Speaker 2: you can't you can't guard nobody party, Misterry. I think
Speaker 2: miss Terry can catch.
Speaker 1: The ball on them.
Speaker 2: I think I think miss miss Terry is more athletic.
Speaker 1: Wow, you've heard it here, everybody. I like that.
Speaker 2: I would like to see that matchup too.
Speaker 1: Bucket. Okay, you talked about the dancing. You did the
Speaker 1: dancing for the Rookie Talent Show. There was also a
Speaker 1: video of you at Alabama dancing. You've got some good moves,
Speaker 1: so I don't know why people were laughing at the
Speaker 1: dancing because it seemed like you're onto something. Do you
Speaker 1: think that you could choreograph something for the Bengals?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we get some being guys and I can choreograph whatever.
Speaker 2: Guys from like the team, we can sure we could
Speaker 2: do we have a dance off, actually we go against
Speaker 2: the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Okay, would you form in your group if you had
Speaker 1: to have, like, you know, a traditional boy band dance off,
Speaker 1: which that's like what five dudes usually?
Speaker 2: Who would you who?
Speaker 1: You would be front and center? Obviously?
Speaker 2: To be honest, I'll probably go, like I'll go to
Speaker 2: dvre out for real, I'll go, look me, how many
Speaker 2: people have to be five? So all right me Cam,
Speaker 2: DJ Turner, who's a who's a big guy with hm hmm,
Speaker 2: I'll go I'll go BJ Hill and I'll go Cheeto. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's a great five. That is a great five. We win.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it. I wish we had space to
Speaker 1: put a dance together here, but we got a handshake
Speaker 1: so they don't need to go farther than that. I
Speaker 1: love it. There's a real closeness with the rookies, it seems.
Speaker 1: Talk to me a little bit about that relationship of
Speaker 1: you guys all being able to come in here together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like kind of day one, like walking in,
Speaker 2: just seeing the seeing the vets. It is kind of
Speaker 2: like funny to see, like people even be watching when
Speaker 2: you're coming out of the carriage, but just them greeting
Speaker 2: you from day one, no hesitation, like just welcoming you in,
Speaker 2: allowing you to be you be comfortable. It was just
Speaker 2: it was just fun and it was like pleasing to
Speaker 2: the I because it's like, dang, you think these guys
Speaker 2: would be individuals, but they're not. They're really team players
Speaker 2: and at the end of the day, they're just they're
Speaker 2: one of you, and you got to realize that that
Speaker 2: they're not. They're nobody, you know, bigger than you. You know,
Speaker 2: they make you feel that way as well. They try
Speaker 2: to feel They try to make it seem like they're
Speaker 2: not bigger than you, and they try to make us
Speaker 2: feel comfortable.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Was there somebody that you were the most kind
Speaker 1: of nervous to me? I mean, Joe Burrow, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean seems very stressful, honestly.
Speaker 2: But I think like our first our first encounter, it
Speaker 2: was like I was like, how do you know? Like,
Speaker 2: how do you know my name? He was like what's up?
Speaker 2: He's like, what's up, Jordan.
Speaker 1: I'm like hello, it means yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was like it was like that is cool name. Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay. So with the rookies, we got a little game here.
Speaker 1: Who had the biggest rookie mistake of the year so far?
Speaker 2: Rookie mistake of the year so far? I mean, I
Speaker 2: mean I think we all, I mean yeah, we all did.
Speaker 2: It kind of happened at the same time. We are me,
Speaker 2: DJ and DJ ME, Ivy and Draco. We kind of
Speaker 2: forgot to get the dB rooms from Snacks.
Speaker 1: Who had the worst talent show? I don't think it
Speaker 1: was you.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was me either. Uh I was
Speaker 2: Jayalen Moody's not here, Jayleen Jalen Moody. Out of the
Speaker 2: ones who was here, though, I'll probably say Ivy and Draco.
Speaker 1: What do those guys they did.
Speaker 2: Their their step like they're they're in a fraternity.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like they didn't have enough, Like they didn't
Speaker 2: really represent like, Yeah, they're just up there going through
Speaker 2: the motions.
Speaker 1: No emotion attached to it. You got to be invested
Speaker 1: in talent show, just going through the motions. Who has
Speaker 1: the worst game day FETs?
Speaker 2: The worst on the team, like the rookies of the
Speaker 2: rookies worst game day fits. I'll probably go Charlie. Charlie's
Speaker 2: too basic. He just relies on his good looks. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: his good looks. He thinks he's a good looking man,
Speaker 2: so you just have to put on anything for real.
Speaker 1: Who's got the best outfits?
Speaker 2: The best I'll probably say, uh, Drago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's very Yeah. Yeah. Grooming wise, who needs to
Speaker 1: step up their game? Grooming wise? We have Gillette here,
Speaker 1: so we got.
Speaker 2: To talk grooming wise. Wow.
Speaker 1: Who needs to be hosed down and trimmed up?
Speaker 2: Mm hm, let's see. Probably Jackson Kirkland, Probably Jackson. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he needs Yeah, he needs to good. I guess my barber,
Speaker 2: Yeah there go, there you go.
Speaker 1: Do you have everything set up here in Cincinnati that
Speaker 1: you need? Now you've got everything and play?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got my barber, got my hair stylist does
Speaker 2: my hair? Uh, I haven't really found a nail salon.
Speaker 1: Oh I have one. I just want, I got I
Speaker 1: think got you. It's fine. Yeah, yeah, no, it's a
Speaker 1: great spot. Well listen. Thank you for hanging out with me.
Speaker 1: Best of luck the rest of the season, and keep
Speaker 1: crushing it, keep smiling, keep being you.
Speaker 2: Thank you. H